Art Steinmetz
Art Steinmetz
@apsteinmetz.bsky.social
A simple man from the Midwest trying to make it in the big city. My data science blog is at outsiderdata.net This is also me, https://www.linkedin.com/in/asteinmetz/
@amigabill.bsky.social Hi, Bill. I'm hoping your vast network might be able to help me to extract what's on this Ricoh 500mb MO drive cart. It was in my A2000 with a GVP SCSI controller. Powers up but I've been unsuccessful in recognizing the disk. I'd be happy to find a recovery service. THX!
September 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
August 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Let's view the #NJ flooding on a map. Sooo many #Rstats #ggplot2 graphic elements in this plot and moving from mapping coordinate system to cartesian and back again. Crazy. Code here: gist.github.com/apsteinmetz/...
July 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I continue to explore visualizing flooding with #rstats, #ggplot with stream gage data from the USGS. Here are the USGS stream gage data for the flooding in NJ on 7/14. You'll note that "Bound Brook in Middelsex" is the station downstream from Plainfield, where the worst flooding occured.
July 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The USGS monitors rivers and streams in near-real time. The gage closest to #CampMystic on the #GuadalupeRiver "pinned the meter" around 5AM, July 4 and stopped reporting. Some perspective visualizations using #Rstats. Claude helped with the USGS API. Code here: gist.github.com/apsteinmetz/...
July 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The numbers don't lie, but....all languages are "dead." Long live "vibe."

I'm an old R-dog who can't write "Hello World" in Python, so I asked Claude to make a Shiny4Python app to display historical yield curves, just because. A few prompts and viola! Sort of takes the fun out of life.
June 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Here's the trivial #rstats code. I crudely estimate the publish date as birth year + 18 + half the lifespan after 18. Opinions may vary.
June 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Project Gutenberg is a fantastic resource but I've been frustrated by the absence of an original publication date. The metadata on the site shows the date it was posted to PG. #tidytuesday was a great excuse to "fix" this. A few lines with the #rstats gutenbergr package and presto!
June 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
...and, while climate is what you expect and weather is what you get, the years have been less icy of late.
February 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Lake Erie is pretty frosty now. A couple #ggplot2 extensions illustrate the context. The first plot duplicates what's at the NOAA using gghighlight. The second is fun with ggridges! #rstats
February 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
December 6, 2024 at 8:27 PM